or 500 megs. I've seen those cache sizes set to gigs. If you've got a speedy connection to the internet, that's just overkill.
    * Find Fat Temp File Apps and squash them - Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D are really fast and loose with the disk space. You can poke around for a while and next thing you know you're down 2 gigs or more. If you don't use the app a lot, delete the caches when you exit, or better yet, make the cache size for each app small.
    * works-on-my-machine-starburst ADVANCED: Use Junction Points/Hard Links/Reparse Points to move temp file folders - This is an advanced technique. If this technique kills your beloved pet cat, don't email me. You have been warning. Also, note that I'm only saying it works for me.
      I use my Zune all the time, and like many portable media players, it transcodes (squishes) video that it downloads from the web to its preferred size and codec. For example, if I download an ABCNews Podcast, it might be 600 megs, but then Zune automatically squishes it to say, 300 megs. It puts that in %AppData%\Local\Microsoft\Zune\Transcoded Files Cache. I'm not sure how to move that folder, and I've looked all over the Zune app. I know I can set the Max Size, but I want it off my drive. So, I make a SymLink. This is a way to fake out apps (Unix people know this) by making a folder POINT to another place.
      From an admin command prompt, I went into the Zune temp folder and deleted that Transoded Files Cache directory. Then